Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi

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Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi (born 15 January 1932, Prague) is an Austrian journalist. A member of the Coudenhove-Kalergi family, she is the daughter of Gerolf von Coudenhove-Kalergi and thus the niece of Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi. As ethnic German she was expelled from her hometown Prague during the ethnic cleansing of 1945/1946 that murdered or drove from their homes the more than 30% ethnic Germansin territories handed to Czechoslovakia. She was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Class IV, in 2001.[1]

References

  1. "October 28th celebrations in the Czech Republic". Radio Prague. Retrieved 13 July 2010. 


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